Overview

• At Estonia’s request, the UN Security Council convened Monday over what Tallinn says was a 12-minute breach by three Russian MiG-31s, drawing broad condemnations as Moscow denied any violation.
• NATO ambassadors are set to hold Article 4 consultations on Tuesday, with alliance air policing reinforced under the ongoing Eastern Sentry deployments.
• Italian F-35s based in Estonia scrambled alongside Swedish and Finnish jets to intercept the aircraft, and Estonia reported the planes had no filed flight plans and flew with transponders off.
• President Donald Trump said the United States would defend Poland and the Baltic states if Russia escalates, after being briefed on the incident.
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated Poland will shoot down objects that clearly violate its airspace and pose a threat, while urging caution in ambiguous cases.